Visuel de la journée Bibliothèques d'Orient - - BnF
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Libraries of the Middle East Open Day

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9:30 - 17:30
François-Mitterrand

Petit auditorium

Visuel de la journée Bibliothèques d'Orient - - BnF

The BnF and its partner institutions in the Bibliothèques d’Orient / Libraries of the Middle East Programme invite the public to discover remarkable collections on the history, societies and cultures of the Middle East.

Curators and researchers will present documents and sets identified, preserved, and enhanced in the framework of Bibliothèques d’Orient / Libraries of the Middle East, the cooperation programme of the BnF with conservation and research institutions in the Middle East, and around collections relating to the region. 

The BnF currently collaborates with fourteen institutions that hold collections with a heritage and scientific value and that are located in Egypt, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey. Cooperation covers one or more areas: identification, restoration, cataloguing, digitisation, and enhancement through support to research and digital humanities projects and dissemination on Gallica and the Bibliothèques d’Orient website. 

The Programme is made possible thanks to support, on the one hand, from the Mellon Foundation as part of its Public Knowledge Programme, and, on the other, from the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) for actions relating to the restoration, digitisation and dissemination of the Iraqi documentary heritage. 

Programme

9:30 - 10:00 – Opening speeches

  • Gilles Pécout, President of the BnF
  • Ophélie Ramonatxo, Director of International Engagement, BnF

10:00 - 11:00 – Around religious productions

Manuscripts from the Scriptorium Syriacum of the Chaldean Antonian Order of Saint Hormizd
  • Fr Samer Yohanna, doctor in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, lecturer at and co-founder of the Syriac Department at Salahaddin University, superior of the Chaldean Antonian order, Erbil
  • Dr André Binggeli, Head of the Greek and Oriental Christian Section, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS), Paris
Arab-Muslim turāth works in the holding of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies
  • Fr Mateus Domingues da Silva, doctor in Arabic Studies, Director of the Library, Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (Idéo), Cairo
Spreading the faith, making the Holy Land known: The publishing work of the Franciscan Printing Press in Jerusalem
  • Marion Blocquet, Archivist and Paleographer, Director of the Cantal Departmental Archive

11:00 - 11:15 – Break

11:15-12:00 – Popular literature

Pertev Naili Boratav and Turkish popular literature in the holding of the BnF
  • Sara Yontan Musnik, former Curator of Turkish collections at the BnF
The manuscripts of the Damascene recension of the Sīrat Baybars through the lens of digital humanities 
  • Dr Iyas Hassan, Professor of Pre-Modern Arabic Literature at Sorbonne University, Director of the Department of Arabic, Medieval and Modern Studies, Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Beirut 
  • Claire Cialone-Grégoire, Research Engineer in Digital Humanities.

12:00-13:00 – Production and dissemination of knowledge on Egypt and the Levant

Studies on the Holy Land in the holdings of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française
  • Fr Bernard Ntamak, Head Librarian, École Biblique et Archéologique Française (Ébaf), Jerusalem
The French Mandate over Lebanon and Syria in the holding of the libraries of the Institut français du Proche-Orient 
  • Elsa Zakhia, Regional Head of Libraries, Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Beirut
  • Dr Taos Babour, CNRS Research Engineer, Head of Media and Digital Humanities, Ifpo, Beirut
Around the Medamoud archaeological site
  • Agnès Macquin, Director of the Library, Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO), Cairo

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30-15:45 - Nationalisms and intellectual movements 

The Nahḍa in the holdings of the Oriental Library 
  • Dr Joseph Rustom, doctor in Urban History, Director of the Oriental Library of Saint-Joseph University, Beirut 
Nahḍa works in the holdings of the BnF
  • Dr Manel Belhadj Ali, doctor in Comparative Literature from Sorbonne University
Yemeni manuscripts in the Kuwait Collection of the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts 
  • Dr Ahmed Abdelbasset Mohamed, doctor in Linguistics, Researcher at the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, Cairo
The Kurdish press of the first half of the 20th century in the holdings of the Zheen Centre for Documentation and Research 
  • Rafiq Saleh, Director, Zheen Centre for Documentation and Research, Sulaymaniyah

15:45-16:00 - Break

16:00-17:30 - Urban Modernities 

French Library Collections on Mosul and its Communities: A 19th and early 20th Century Perspective
  • Dr Omar Mohammed, doctor in History from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, Paris
Documenting the past of Alexandria, a city in transformation: From deltiology to GIS 
  • Marie-Delphine Martellière, CNRS Research Engineer, Head of Archives, Digitisation Unit and French-language Egyptian Press Programme, Head of Documentary Resources, Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEAlex), Alexandria
Istanbul through the Oriental Trade Directories (1868-1929) 

  • Dr Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Historian, Associate Director for Research and Programmes, Salt, Istanbul

The Footprint of 20th Century Modernization in the Ottoman Capital: Electricity, Urbanization and Silahtarağa Archives
  • Amed Gökçen, Lecturer and Manager of Special Projects, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Başak Koşanay, Assistant Archivist, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
The archives of the town planner and architect Jacques-Henri Lambert (1884-1960) held by the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA), Istanbul
  • Dr Jean-François Pérouse, Assistant Professor and Researcher at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès
  • Murat Tülek, Urban Planner and Archivist, independent researcher in urban studies

Panels will be introduced and facilitated by Dr Géraldine Chatelard, Head of Programme, Middle East and Arabic Materials / Libraries of the Middle East Project Manager, doctor in History and Civilisation from the EHESS, and Zakaria Haffar, Iraq Project Manager, International Engagement Department, BnF.

Pratical information

Fees and Access
 

Access is free – Advanced booking is recommended
Please arrive 20 min before the start of the event

Date and time

Thursday 20 June 2024
9:30-17:30

Venue

François-Mitterrand - Petit auditorium
Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13e
Eastern Entrance from rue Émile Durkheim

 

Location plan and transportation

The Bibliothèques d’Orient / Libraries of the Middle East Open Day has benefitted from support from the Mellon Foundation and the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH).

With the participation of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (Idéo, Cairo) the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO, Cairo), the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (Cairo), the Centre for Alexandrian Studies (CEAlex, Alexandria), the French Biblical and Archaeological School (Ébaf, Jerusalem), the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (Jerusalem), the French Institute in the Near East (Ifpo, and its libraries in Beirut, Damascus, and Amman), the Oriental Library of Saint-Joseph University (BO-USJ, Beirut), the Scriptorium Syriacum of the Chaldean Antonian Order of St Hormizd (Erbil), the Zheen Centre for Documentation and Research (Sulaymaniyah),  the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA, Istanbul), Salt (Istanbul), and Bilgi University (Istanbul).

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